amy cunningham has been a magazine writer for30 years, a website editor, producer, and bloggersince 2003. Her essays and articles have been published in More, Glamour, Redbook, McCall's, Glamour, Vegetarian Times, and Washington Post magazine. For two years, she wrote a blog on whole foods, healthy living, yoga, and meditation under the pen name ChatteringMind for the award-winning website Beliefnet.com.

She lives in the New York city area with her husband, Steven Waldman, and two sons.